The strategic Beit Jinn enclave was allowed to fall and the Syrian rebel defenders to capitulate – without IDF intervention.
The Syrian-Hizballah-Iranian led attackers completed their capture of the Beit Jinn enclave on Tuesday, Dec. 26, forcing the Syrian rebel defenders to capitulate and gaining close access to Israel’s northern border and the Quneitra pocket of the Golan. For their final push, the attackers were reinforced Sunday by Hizballah troops from Lebanon and the Syrian army’s Golan Regiment militia. On Monday, leaders of the rebel militia holding Beit Jinn met with Syrian and Hizballah officers and signed the following note of surrender:

Full reconciliation is granted to militants native to the Beit Jinn region who wish to stop fighting.

Militants who refuse the reconciliation offer are to be transported to rebel-held areas in the Daraa and Idlib Governorates.

Militants who entered the Beit Jinn region through Israeli-controlled territory via Daraa are to exit back to Daraa through the same route.

The Syrian Arab Army will regain control over all military sites and bases in the Beit Jinn valley that it possessed prior to the beginning of the civil war in 2011.

The terms of the surrender are to be implemented on Tuesday the 26th of December, 2017.

As DEBKAfile reported on Monday, the IDF’s failure to force Druze inhabitants of the Golan village of Hader to open up a southwesterly escape route, would force the embattled Beit Jinn rebels to surrender and negotiate terms for their retreat. Since there was no IDF intervention, the rebels had no option but to bow to the terms dictated by Syrian, Hizballah and Revolutionary Guards officers, and let them move into to positions 6km from the Golan border. No impediment now remains in the path of the three hostile forces for heading towards Israeli Golan. Furthermore, by allowing its allies to lose control of Beit Jinn, Israel virtually signed away military control of the Quneitra pocket. It may be recalled that in October 1973, the Syrian army launched its Yom Kippur offensive for the conquest of northern Israel from this very location.
On Monday, DEBKAfile reported:

The Syrian-Hizballah-pro-Iranian force gain reinforcements from Lebanon and Syria to complete the successful bid for Beit Jinn and close in on Israel.
The Beit Jinn enclave faces the IDF’s Mt. Hermon positions and is 11 km from the Israeli border. Its fall is critical to the fate of the Quneitra region opposite the Israeli Golan. Three strategic setbacks confronted Israel on Sunday, Dec. 25 in the wake of the tripartite military’s capture of Maghar Al-Mir (see attached map) which split the Beit Jinn enclave in two.

Syrian and Hizballah forces continued to push forward east and south, while their officers pinned the defenders, the Islamist Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham rebels, to the wall with an ultimatum: Hand over the fighters accused of ties with Israel in return for a safe passage of retreat from the embattled enclave, or face destruction.

The attackers mobilized reinforcements from a new direction – Lebanon. A column of Hizballah forces drove in Sunday, Dec. 24, from the southern Lebanese outpost of Chebaa and crossed into Syria to join the assault on the rebels.

Damascus, moreover, sent in the Golan Regiment militia to clinch the Beit Jinn battle, in the expectation that its fall would also have a domino effect on Israeli-backed rebel defenders in the entire Quneitra region of the Syrian Golan. The Syrian army originally established this militia for pro-Assad Druze fighters. But in the past year, it has been packed with Iranian elements linked to the Revolutionary Guards. They established a headquarters at Khan Arnaba north of Quneitra and 5km from the Israeli border. The Revolutionary Guards officers’ presence in Khan Arnaba gives Iran a direct hand in the Beit Jinn battle and its projected sequel, the fight for Quneitra right up to Israel’s Golan border and a threat to the IDF’s Hermon position.

DEBKAfile’s military sources estimate that the only way the rebels can escape the Syrian-Hizballah crunch is by going on the offensive against the Druze village of Hader in order to break open an escape route to the southwest. But the obstacle there is a pledge which Israel gave Israeli Druze leaders in November not to allow rebel forces to attack Hader. The pledge was given in the wake of violent Druze riots on the Golan and threats from Israeli Druze, some of whom hold high military ranks in the IDF, to cross the border and defend Hader themselves.

This Israeli pledge to its Druze citizens is the strongest card the Syrian, Hizballah and Iranian forces are wielding to compel the Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham to surrender. After that, the three forces would move in and take up positions in the captured Beit Jinn enclave, and gain a jumping-off pad against Israel and its Hermon outpost. The way this affair is playing out makes naught of Israel’s government and military leaders’ solemn vow to keep Iran and Hizballah far from its borders.

“The way this affair is playing out makes naught of Israel’s government and military leaders’ solemn vow to keep Iran and Hizballah far from its borders.”

This is exactly as the LORD promised: all the nations are gathering against Israel over the issue of Jerusalem, and ALL the world will see that it is YHVH who is the defender of Israel. Let God be true, and every man a liar.

The hook is being set in the jaws of Gog and company. The armies are being brought against the mountains of Israel according to the word of the LORD.

Ezekiel 39:1-5
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Thats what the one and only God – the God of Israel has said ! And thats whats going to happen !
Dont you fear, Israel ! Your God – the only God – is watching over you 24/7/365 !
HE is your and our shelter and hope !
Into HIS arms we run to hide / seek shelter !

Nothing is going to happen , if Israel would not put its nose in every affair or issue in the world . Look around, Jews are everywhere , including the Al-qAIDA , iSIS , and what not . Their training of the human meat eaters is coming to an end . And Jerusalem was agreed to be the capital of all religions and its citizens , which includes Palestinians . So what is the problem . The Jews cannot control everything with their American lobby . Its time to make peace , with Iran , and house of Saud , and make all of the middle east an economic power house , where Israel and its neighbors will build next economic miracle on earth . That is what the God of Israel and Ishmael as well would like , we all sure of it .

Solomeo says it’s time to make peace. Your dream will come to pass, but the Lord will disannul it. So much for mankind’s idle (idol) plans for peace. They are built on air. WWIII is in the offing: we have God’s word on it.

By your account Your God has apparently an aversion to peace and of course loves genocide. Are you sure You are worshipping the right God, or may be you interpret the God’s words with your genocidal mentality. What a disservice to humanity and what a disgrace to rejoice in the possibility of millions of innocent dead. Why can’t you God appear without a need for genocide as a welcoming party.

“we all sure of it”. Don’t be so sure you know what G-ds will is. Deuteronomy 23:32 . 32″You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33″They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”…

[when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless [es] himself in his heart, saying , I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst]

Devarim 29:11: … Now IF you obey me FULLY and keep my covenant, THEN out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, You will be for me a kingdom of PRIESTS [not judges] and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

AND THEN?
Malachi 2:2
1. And now, to you is this commandment, O priests.
2. If you do not heed, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My Name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed I have [already] cursed it, for you do not take it to heart.
3. Behold! I rebuke the seed because of you, and I will scatter dung upon your face-the dung of your festive sacrifices, and it shall take you to itself.
4. And you shall know that I have sent you this commandment, that My covenant be with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.
5. My covenant was with him, life and peace, and I gave them to him [with] fear; and he feared Me, and because of My Name, he was over-awed.
6. True teaching was in his mouth, and injustice was not found on his lips. In peace and equity he went with Me, and he brought back many from iniquity.
7. For a priest’s lips shall guard knowledge, and teaching should be sought from his mouth, for he is a messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
8. But you have turned aside from the way. You caused many to stumble in the Torah. You corrupted the covenant of the Levites, said the Lord of Hosts.
9. And now I, too, have made you contemptible and low to the entire people according to how you do not keep My ways and [how] you show favoritism in the Torah.
10. Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why should we betray, each one his brother, to profane the convenant of our forefathers?
11. Judah has dealt treacherously], and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy one of the Lord [in] that he loved and married the daughter of a foreign god.

The Covenant of David and of Solomon is CONDITIONAL.

1 Melachim 6:12
As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father Dovid walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Ysrael forever, just as I promised to your father Dovid, saying, “You shall not lack a man on the throne of Ysrael.” But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Ysrael from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Ysrael will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

G-d Abrogates the Covenant CE 70/70 AD.

zekaryahu 11:10| And I took my staff, even No’am, andI broke it asunder, breaking off my Brit (covenant) which I had made with kol ha’amim (all the peoples)

…

|14| Then I broke my second staff, called Chovelim, breaking off the achavah (brotherhood) between Yehudah and Yisroel.

If a man lawfully puts away his wife is she any longer able to claim to be his wife?

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness [ Devvarim 29:18] in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. (Devarim 24:1-2)

DE
29:10 –
Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers , with all the men of Israel,

29:11 –
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

29:12 –
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

29:13 –
That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

29:14 –
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

29:15 –
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

29:16 –
(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by ;

29:17 –
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

29:18 –
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; [red] lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood ;
29:19 –
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying , I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst

“if Israel would not put its nose in every affair or issue in the world”

@solomeo,

Are you referring to Israel’s agricultural projects they have in parts of Africa to help people feed themselves there——–or to their rescue and medical aid they sent to Haiti———or to the rescue aid they sent to Turkey after a severe earthquake————??????

” Look around, Jews are everywhere , including the Al-qAIDA , iSIS , and what not .”

@solomeo,

I think you’re confusing Jews with Palestinians——–just read some of Debka’s past articles and try to get your facts right!

Israel is helping the most deplorable in the world. They used to be a good friend of Apartheid regime and they learnt well from them doing the same thing in Palestine. They helped the regime to commit
Guatemalan genocide and doing the same in Burma Helping to commit genocide against the Rohingya. that is just a few of their charitable work. They are a nasty lot and have not learned anything from the history.

Israel is a people, a holy people. The idolatrous militant jewish state entity in Palestine is not holy and not the G-ds’ people ‘Israel’ from the holy TaNaKH. But then if you weren’t tyrants who spare no thought for the honor of the creator, holy G-d, you would perceive that. So, days numbered…tyrants

“The idolatrous militant jewish state entity in Palestine is not holy————–”

@iVaN,

So now I get it, iVaN, you’re part of that small radical group who hangs around the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn (ostracized by everyone else there) with the name of your sect translating into English something like “keepers of the city gate” and who sent a few members to Iran some years ago to attend the “Holocaust denial conference” they had over there some years ago———-right?

“God of Israel” is referring to a name which G-d commands Himself to be called. Exodus 3:15
God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations. From this moment forward the nations were put on notice (once again) that not only they will be held accountable for the 7 Noahide Laws, but also that the Israelites were commanded in 613 commandments, including the conquering the Land Of Israel. The Canaanite nations were declared homeless overnight.

” ALL secularists/athiests and non Christian jews will all die in Israel.”

@Sue,

I hate to break this to you, Sue, but the 100,000 + Iranian supplied missiles in the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon, if fired into Israel, will not know the difference between a “non Christian Jew” or a Christian or a secularist or an atheist or anyone else for that matter.

Seats at the United Nations do not come from an invisible sky goblin. White european terrorists were gifted land belonging to semites by the racists at the United Nations–spearheaded by Uncle Sam’s gang of Zionists and the USSR’s gang of Zionists.

Learning Hebrew from a Rosetta Stone CD-Rom doesn’t make you semitic. Nor does it make one indigenous to the Levant.

You may want to take into account the fact that in Israel, the Christian communities of many denominations are protected and allowed to carry out their traditions. That is not always the case in some other parts of the Middle East, so you may want to eliminate your vitriol against the Israelis and the Jewish people which you have expressed in your posts once you take the time to assess all of the facts.

The Mossad hacks who run this website are sure $hitting bricks. Apartheid Israel, Uncle Sam, the Saud family of pedophiles, along with their merry band of cannibals and nazis have LOST in SYRIA, just like they LOST in LEBANON TWICE!

Not winning wars one initiates does not mean you’re waiting. It means you’re failing.

Sixty years of ethnic cleansing is but a short, short while on the Persian, Russian, Chinese, and Arab calendar.

Did you know that Robert Muellar investigated the wrong man during the anthrax scare after 911, he ruined the mans career and life. It turned out the man was innocent, Muellar is incompetent and an idiot. The man sued the federal government and won a 10 million dollar settlement because of Robert Muellars incompetence, he is a complete tool.

Well… Looks like Israel’s worst holocaust ever, is yet to come… Now why would God allow for His chosen to be executed en masse? I mean what kind of God allows for His chosen to be killed? Why would God allow for such a thing to happen? Really? Could it be that actually the Jews are not chosen at all. And God will force a liberation on the land to free the Israelis from Jewry? After all God gave the Torah to the Israelis. And not the Jews. And then the rest of Abraham’s nations can return unhindered to the temple? Without the Jews trying to carnally influence God’s people?

Achmed you blaspheme your own religion. Mohammed said that the Land Of Israel belongs to the “people of the book”. that was a present tense statement. Do you know any other people refered to by that name. If he were here today he would bury you with your pet pig.

Arabs are Arbs either Christian, Sunni, Shia or Druze. Only small fractions of Druze, those residing in the Galilee are loyal to Israel, and not out of the love for Jews, but for their own interests. Vast majority of Druzes residing in the Lebanon and syria are outright hostile, the same is true about majority of the Druzes residing on the Golan. Being a kind of subsect of the Shia Islam, like a Syrian Alawites they should be considered as the fifth column.

Israel can take care of themselves against any combination of Arab armies including Iran, in the Middle East. They are the most powerful military in the Middle East with devastating weapons and cutting edge technology. This is no secret. The whole world knows Israel’s abilities. And in this next war, it is quite likely Israel will be forced to finally take off the gloves, and literally wipe-out the attacking armies and their countries- beyond imagination. Even Russia cannot stop Israel in the Middle East. Nothing will save her enemies. Nothing.

“Popular insurgency” is your code for slaughtering innocent civilians. Barbarians running around slaughtering people is very hard to defend against – humanely. If forced, Israel & other civilized nations will start wiping out the Islamists en masse, and when they cry “genocide”, no one will listen, because humanity is tired of the barbarian murderers.

I know what will happen, the higher the concentration of enemy forces, to more likely and easier it will be to counter and kill them. Time is going to favor Israel not the massing enemy. Wait and see, a defensive attack will come and as far as I know will be very aggressive, swift and short. You can take that to the bank for a deposit.

All talk from a welfare state. The feckless army can’t even stop bottle rockets from a prison colony! Meanwhile, the geriatric zionist squatters go running for the hills, wetting the bed, fleeing to hospitals and bomb shelters.

Hizbollah sends the “ELITE” land grabber army running home, $hitting their pants, whenever they step one inch into Lebanon.

Only the Israelis can be blamed for this one. By publicizing their intent not to allow the rebels to march on a specific point, the Syrian/Iranian/Hezbollah/Russian axis has amended its strategy to force the rebels into making a very difficult decision – to capitulate, with little guarantee of their own safety, or to attack that exact point [what were the chances?] in the hopes that their rear won’t be harried and their front won’t come against the Israelis. If this were to happen, then the IDF would be forced into a bad situation – going into battle for their enemies, thereby doing half of the work for them, or sitting tight and making it look like a fair-weather ally. The risk of defection in the second case should not be discounted – if these people cross the border, there are several ways in which it would not end well.

In any event, a rebel breakout through Hader, allowed or not, would be dangerous – the rebels will eventually be forced up to the Israeli border in such a place as to directly threaten Majdal Shams and the Hermon [haven’t we seen this one before?], with the loyalist forces right on their heels. The map is fairly nonspecific in terms of deployments, but I would imagine that there are two options open besides those listed – a run for Hafra, to the south, which would keep the rebels alive for the moment but in a string of retreats; or a last-ditch counteroffensive.

Should’ve enacted that buffer zone when there was a chance. Hindsight may be 20/20, but in this case, foresight wasn’t bad enough to make that excuse.

The mercenary head-choppers, sent by NuttyYahoo’s Saud family pedo-buddies, are going bye bye! Guess the alCIAda cannibals found it hard to fight with the tongues of land-grabbing ladies up their asses (on orders from fatboy Avgidor)!

You know: once those Zionist ladies start licking, they just can’t stop.

Reliance on ISISrael results from cultivating a fake army of losers that can’t do anything besides attack quadriplegics and children. After stealing water from the Stolen Golan for 35 years, it’s all coming to an end.

The name you use makes your comments about as worthy as a wet fart rolling down your leg. For the sake of self entertainment, I will respond to your delusional babble. If you’re so concerned about your Syrian and Jordanian friends (the fictional “palestinian civilians”) who were left behind after they attacked Israel in 1967 and lost. You know, the world’s greatest modern victory by any nation, the one that was won by Israel after they were attacked. If you’re so concerned about the people left behind by Israel’s enemies, then why have you done nothing for the past 50 years to help them go home to Syria or Jordan? Just because you are always sitting in a pile of wet farts, doesn’t mean you can’t actually do something beneficial. Just clean up yourself and get to work.

Right on the money JP. Lots of similar boastful hot air leading up to June ’67 turned to wailing and gnashing of teeth pretty quickly. This time around, no sissy boy Bushes, Clintons and Obamas crying for Israeli “restraint”.

All talk. The land-grabber army without soldiers specializes in losing to Hizbollah. For two decades, they have done nothing else besides kill Palestinian civilians.”

@”ISISrael loses Wars”,

B-U-L-L-F-E-A-T-H-E-R-S!

Since you’re always spewing disinformation, I was just wondering if Debka disqualified one of your old “stage names”: remember when you used to call yourself: “Arabs are Semites, Not Fakers”———your “style” hasn’t changed a bit!

no, the pivot has completed, but NK has aquired H-bomb and quasi ballistic missile tech. Arab NATO is up and running…well, almost, LOL, but the Houthi, they can’t be beat. IS has failed and China’s attack dog, Russia has pissed on the Ukrainian bonfire. Hezbollah is small change.

Remember that Israel has a “Samson” option to nuke the following capitals: Tehran, Moscow and Beijing. It doesn’t need to destroy Berlin and Paris since the migrant Muslims will happily do it when they smell an opportunity of a decaying West.

I’ve read this site for several years and these trolls like “Jim Carrol” talk like the adolescent middle school boys I work with…wonder why his mommy lets him play with her computer on an adult website when he doesn’t even know how to talk in complete sentences yet? DEBKAfile needs to monitor this site a little more carefully.

Why don’t we all agree to bring Rabbi Nachman to Mt Zion, like we agreed to honor President Shimon Peres? That was a good move by the world. This second move is probably not optional, I regret to inform you. Have no doubts that the Exile from Egypt was highly unpleasant for everyone, except Gd. Being disgraced by a foolish despot is worse. Rabbi Nachman is at least 200 exponential times greater than Josef, I do not want to comprehend the implications.

“Why don’t we all agree to bring Rabbi Nachman to Mt Zion, like we agreed to honor President Shimon Peres? That was a good move by the world. This second move is probably not optional, I regret to inform you. Have no doubts that the Exile from Egypt was highly unpleasant for everyone, except Gd. Being disgraced by a foolish despot is worse. Rabbi Nachman is at least 200 exponential times greater than Josef, I do not want to comprehend the implications.”

@Mordecai,
———————-and I have no clue what you’re talking about!
Could you explain it to me?

We’re about to watch the GCC working in coordination with the Lebanese & Israelis to draw much of what remains of Assad’s, Iran’s & Hezbollah’s mobile armed forces into a kill zone and then utterly annihilate them.